[antlr-interest] Re: ANTLR 3 License

[lgcraymer]

Ter has aggressively kept ANTLR public domain.  LGPL violates the PD 
philosophy that anyone should be allowed to take advantage of the 
work, make money from it, or otherwise tamper with it in secret.

--Loring


--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "Anthony W Youngman" 
<Anthony.Youngman at E...> wrote:
> Everybody else has said "yes", but can I throw a spanner in the 
works?
> 
> I'd much prefer LGPL. The only real "advantage" of BSD is that it 
allows
> other people to take advantage of your work, make money from it, 
and
> "improve" or otherwise tamper with it "in secret".
> 
> The LGPL will mean that if they want to do that, they have to keep 
Antlr
> identifiably separate and publish any changes they have made to 
Antlr
> itself. If you go down the LGPL route, though, you really need to 
make
> explicit the fact that any code generated by Antlr is *not* 
covered by
> the Antlr licence.
> 
> The other advantage of the LGPL is that you should ask anybody 
providing
> a "substantive patch" or more to assign copyright to you. If a 
condition
> of that assignment is that any Antlr containing that code will be
> available under the LGPL, it then allows you (Ter) to licence 
Antlr to
> any company that wants to make money such that you get some money 
to
> feed back into Antlr too.
> 
> This isn't an unusual approach - to name various companies that do 
it,
> we have MySQL, TT with KDE, and even Cygnus (part of RedHat) with 
gcc
> (except they all use the GPL).
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terence Parr [mailto:parrt at c...] 
> Sent: 16 July 2003 23:40
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLR 3 License
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 02:19 PM, ngormley1974 wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ter, have you had any thoughts about ANTLR 3 licensing?
> 
> Yep.  Lots. I"m thinking essentially the BSD license.  You can do 
what 
> you want with it, just don't sue me. ;)
> 
> >
> > I use ANTLR for commerical and non-commercial projects, and 
wouldn't
> > mind knowing whats around that particular corner.
> 
> Will BSD work for you (and anybody else)?
> 
> Ter
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